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Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by warble »

rafabulsing wrote: post #111
clevedotoner wrote: post #101

One of my worries that keeps me sleeplessly awake at nights sometimes is the possibility of solar flares wiping out storage/data -- at my bank, on my hard drive and what not. A sufficiently strong solar flare can essentially put us back a few centuries electronically, and a few millenia socially, instantly. Wonder if there are stress tests on cloud storage that account for this possibility by means of adequate insula…

Could putting backups in Faraday cages protect against solar flares?

yes, or burying them. Make sure the box is waterproof.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by worldsavior »

homero wrote: post #63
worldsavior wrote: post #57

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That makes no sense. If you have backups locally, why store them on the cloud?

House fire? Theft?

You can also say: cloud servers are on fire and the house is on fire, have another backup someplace else. It's all probability.

The probability that your house will be on fire these days is low, and the probability that your computer/hard drive will get on fire is also low (since you will probably take it out, no one will leave his phone in a burning house right?).

We can say that the probability above is that low that it doesn't really affect anything. There are many other different parameters to add, and I use a bit of math here which doesn't always reflect on life, but you get the point.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by caeril »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #46

It literally only has been 1 hour since OP posted that thread. I agree with all the points about having backups and/or using better service/self host etc., but IMO it's too early to conclude anything about this incident.

It's also highly suspect.

240k photos is 66 photos per day, every day, over a full decade.

If you're spending time taking 66 photos a day, I think you have bigger (personal) issues to contend with than your image storage solution.

Even on vacation, relaxing, with my kids and wife, visiting all manner of picturesque spots, 66 photos would be an enormous feat of narcissism.

The author is either lying about the photo library size to garner sympathy, or has a gargantuan psychological issue to address.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by aftbit »

hyperhopper wrote: post #269
aftbit wrote: post #239

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The seed phrase for a crypto wallet.

How would that do anything? Wouldn't the Blockchain be wiped out by such an event?

Yea likely so. I'm not sure why GP posted this other than as a joke. I am just answering what the 12 words were referring to IMO.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by aftbit »

lostlogin wrote: post #260
aftbit wrote: post #244

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IMO... why not? 250k photos at 10MB each is only ~2.5 TB. That easily fits on modern hard drives. You can even buy SSDs that would fit that for under $500. If you are a professional photographer, then you absolutely should keep everything you ever shoot, just in case one photo is ever worth it. Even if you're an amateur though, that's not really that much storage in the grand scheme of things.

It’s a complete pain if you use a laptop as your daily driver. You don’t want the entire drive filled with photos, and using an external drive with Apple Photos is a PITA as the integration with iCloud doesn’t play nice if the drive isn’t reliably attached. Apple would make a lot of lives easier if they made a tidy way of exporting images from Photos easier to automate. And while they are there, a photo file structur…

Ah yea, if you are stuck using an over-priced Mac laptop as your main machine, and cannot upgrade the storage or use an external hard drive or NAS because of buggy Apple software, that would be a decent reason to keep some of your photos in an exported state instead of keeping the whole archive flat and available online at the same time. Even so, you _can_ buy a MacBook Pro with up to an 8TB drive, it just costs 2x what it should.

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Post by unxdfa »

akho wrote: post #212
unxdfa wrote: post #102

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Smells like everyone in github I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3

How do you back up issues/pr discussions?

We don’t track issues in GitHub. PRs are considered disposable.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

luckylion wrote: post #320
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #304

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Is it really cheap? For 3 years of cloud subscribtion, I can buy 2 Nas drives, drop them at the homes of two of my friends, sync my PC to NAS 1, and backup NAS 1 to NAS 2. They are like 2 -click setup if you use Synology/Qnap/etc. And I will have more storage space.

You can do that, the average person can't, so you should probably consider the time you'd spend on it, and how much it would cost the average person to hire someone to set it up for them. I don't think it'll be too cheap. In the end, not dealing with that is most likely worth it for most people (including most people who have the necessary skill set).

I am not proposing rolling my oen linux box, I am talking about an off-the-shelf product where you plug it in and set a password. You follow a manual with pictures and there is real customer support.

This is very user friendly and good 50% of working-age population can do that.

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Post by [deleted] »

memoryoak wrote: post #325
capableweb wrote: post #31

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> I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. I'm also looking for something FOSS that can do basic face recognition + maybe even more, but last time I checked DigiKam's detection didn't work so well, or maybe I got spoiled by the detection in Google Photos. If you do give it a go, would be nice if you reported back on your experience :)

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Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by lostlogin »

prox wrote: post #303
lostlogin wrote: post #266

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It’s pretty easy to set the Synology to upload to a cloud provider for a folder or file share. It has alerts and all sorts.

Could you do a swap with a friend/colleague? So upload to their NAS and vice versa.

For sure. I just trust Backblaze more.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by lostlogin »

aftbit wrote: post #335
lostlogin wrote: post #260

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It’s a complete pain if you use a laptop as your daily driver. You don’t want the entire drive filled with photos, and using an external drive with Apple Photos is a PITA as the integration with iCloud doesn’t play nice if the drive isn’t reliably attached. Apple would make a lot of lives easier if they made a tidy way of exporting images from Photos easier to automate. And while they are there, a photo file structur…

Ah yea, if you are stuck using an over-priced Mac laptop as your main machine, and cannot upgrade the storage or use an external hard drive or NAS because of buggy Apple software, that would be a decent reason to keep some of your photos in an exported state instead of keeping the whole archive flat and available online at the same time. Even so, you _can_ buy a MacBook Pro with up to an 8TB drive, it just costs 2x w…

Pretty much yes.

Though I’d pay a lot more than I did for my laptop, it’s that good. I regularly see other machines get rated and do try them out but the hardware (trackpad in particular) is never anything like as nice.

It works fine with a nas.

Each to their own.

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